Saturday, October 27, 2012

Cycle to light up Mysore Palace

Now, just pedal to
illuminate Mysore Palace. For the first of its kind in history of
county, District Administration in association with Palace Board and
Private Telecommunications launched 'Cycle to light up the Mysore
Palace' programme at Palace premises in city on Monday.

About ten stationary
cycles have been placed at Mysore Palace premises, to encourage
visitors to pedal as long as they wish. The cycles have been
connected to a dynamo, and the generate energy will be stored in the
batteries and will be used to light up a portion of the Mysore Palace
during Dasara.

If the ten cycles are
pedaled for ten hours continuously, about 1500 watts of power is
generated from which about 1000 bulbs can be illuminated for about
one hour. Generally to illuminate the bulbs, about 2000 units of
power is needed.

At present the entrance
gate of the portion have been connected with these batteries and from
Tuesday, the bulbs will be illuminated by the generated pedal
power. If a persons pedals for about 10-15 minutes he can generate
power for a bulb to glow power.

Palace Board Deputy
Director TS Subramanyam said that one megawatt power is used every
hour to illuminate around 99,000 bulbs which are of 15 watts.

Deputy Commissioner PS
Vastrad said that the efforts to promote cycle-to-work culture in the
city and cycle to light up the Mysore palace are the innovative and
eco-friendly gesture towards the cause. He said if good response is
received, measures will be taken to place more cycle in other places
of palace premises.

Though the bicycles will
light up only a part of the Mysore Palace, it's an eye-watching demo
of the advantages of using bicycles and encourage the visitors to the
palace to do their bit for eco-friendly illumination.